Abuse of Authority: SEARCH (OF PERSON) - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)

This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

Officers With Complaints

1,332

Complaints

1,708

Allegations

2,047

What the CCRB’s Conclusions Mean

Substantiated: The alleged conduct occurred and it violated the rules. (Here is a breakdown of the types of discipline the CCRB can recommend. The NYPD can choose to ignore those recommendations. It has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.)

Exonerated: The alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD’s rules, which often give officers significant discretion over use of force.

Unsubstantiated: The CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.

Officer	Rank at Time of Complaint	Officer Details	Complainant Details	CCRB Conclusion	Year Received
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	White female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Maritza Garay	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Harish Mansharamani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joel Polichron	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Williams	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Mannese	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Bryan Rothwell	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Antonio Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Wilson Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Scott Sanseverino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Christophe Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Leon Pedigo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2011
Timothy Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Justin Puccia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Alexandra Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2011
Anthony Donato	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Starlin Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Francisco Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Hubert Vandewerp	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Daniel Cea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Alexandra Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Luis Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Larry Meyers	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Timothy Brown	Sergeant	White male	White female, 51 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Welington Feliz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kevin Levenstein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Canisius Xavier	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Lombardo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Timothy Rogers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Eric Beckel	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Yuriy Akopov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Aleksandr Kovalenko	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Hebert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Andrew Erato	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kevin Mulhern	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Martin Toczek	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Greg Vallerugo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Thomas Dunsing	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Miguel Frias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Greg Vallerugo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Lipton	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Manolin Molina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darryl Chen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Davis	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Davis	Lieutenant	White male	Not available male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Albert Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2011
Bryan Pocalyko	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Tyler Ehrlein	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
David Nisthaus	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Sjoberg	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gellison Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michele Herbst	Police Officer	White female	Not available female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Marlon Bethel	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Redner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Arsenio Camilo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michael Raso	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Williams	Detective	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011

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About This Data

For decades, disciplinary records of police officers in New York have been shielded from public view. After the state recently repealed the law that had kept the records secret, ProPublica requested and received a database from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct against NYPD officers. The database lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules. Police unions have opposed New York City’s plan to make public data about disciplinary investigations.

This database names about 4,000 of the NYPD’s 36,000 active-duty officers. Every officer in the database has had at least one substantiated allegation. We excluded any allegations that CCRB investigators concluded did not occur and were deemed unfounded. We also removed a small number of officers (62) against whom the CCRB had substantiated allegations, but whose substantiated allegations had not gone fully through the NYPD’s administrative prosecution process. The CCRB was not able to reach conclusions in many cases, in part because the investigators must rely on the NYPD to hand over crucial evidence, such as footage from body-worn cameras. Often, the department is not forthcoming despite a legal duty to cooperate in CCRB investigations. The CCRB gets thousands of complaints per year but substantiates a tiny fraction of them. Allegations of criminal conduct by officers are typically investigated not by the CCRB but by state or federal prosecutors in conjunction with the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau or the FBI. The NYPD’s own findings in cases in this database are not included here.

Read more about what we’ve included in the database and why, and see our answers to questions we have received about this data. If you have information about any of these officers or cases, please fill out our form.

All of the records in this data are from closed cases. But if you see an error, contact the CCRB. If the agency updates its records and lets us know, we'll do so as well.

The data used in this database is downloadable from ProPublica’s Data Store.

Source

This data was obtained through a records request made to the CCRB. It includes fully investigated allegations only for officers who were members of the department as of late June 2020 and against whom the CCRB has substantiated at least one allegation.